Zora Neale Hurston

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Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.

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Writing7 January 1891 (age 134)Notasulga, Alabama, USA

Filmography

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